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Secondary Principals' Council
Teachers Council: Government patsy or voice of the profession? (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. Many PPTA members were enraged this year when the Teachers Council announced that fees to renew teachers' practising certificates would nearly double from 1 July. The…
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From islands to archipelagos: developing secondary school leadership (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. Leadership matters. Education policy-makers and researchers agree that educational leadership can make a positive difference to teaching practices, school cultures, and learning outcomes for students.…
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EDUCANZ: the current state of play (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper provides a report of PPTA's actions opposing the government's scrapping of the Teachers Council and replacing it with a non-representative and overtly political…
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Middle leadership in crisis (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines work PPTA's middle leadership taskforce has done in its inaugural year to clarify the important role middle leaders play in curriculum delivery and…
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Initial teacher education in change: But is it for the better? (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper examines the impact of new models of initial teacher education (ITE) that make greater demands on schools. It considers the effects on teacher workload…
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The middle leadership problem (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper updates members on continued work by the Middle Leadership Taskforce since their report to Annual Conference 2015. It includes a summary of findings from…
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From the top corridor to the back field: supporting senior leaders to lead effective change (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. Senior leaders in secondary schools make a big difference to how well schools function, in particular when it comes to implementing change. They have a significant…
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Teachers in the precariat: fixed-term contracts and the effect on establishing teachers (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper from the Auckland Region and the PPTA Establishing Teachers’ Committee. This paper addresses the insecure work faced by new and establishing teachers through the use…
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Draft Principles for Partnerships between secondary schools and initial teacher education (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper responds to the call by annual conference 2015 for a working party to be convened to develop a code of practice for managing partnerships…
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Establishment of a PPTA Men’s Network (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper is in response to a recommendation from the 2015 PPTA annual conference that PPTA investigate the establishment of a men’s network. The paper notes…
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NCEA Monitoring System Report (2003)
2003 Annual conference report. There is no doubt that there are implementation issues remaining, and issues which have been raised with the President or Executive members or directly with National…
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NCEA - Result: Not Yet Achieved (plus Supplementary paper) (2002)
2002 Annual Conference Paper. This paper summarises PPTA’s policy positions on qualifications as they have evolved from the early 1990s, then looks in detail at the problems which have arisen…
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Careers services in danger (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper highlights a number of current threats to the provision of adequate careers services in secondary schools, caused by the absorption of Careers New Zealand…
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Communities of learning: the slippage between planning and implementation (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper considers the expectations underlying the implementation of Communities of Learning and the experience of implementation in practice. It finds a gap between the two…
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Day relief teachers - Victims of casualisation (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines the issues faced by day relief teachers, including their terms of employment, their difficulties in gaining a school’s agreement to act as lead…
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Flexible Learning Spaces: an experiment on our education system (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines some of the issues with the current move to build and rebuild schools as flexible learning spaces. The lack of evidence from research…
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NCEA review 2018: an opportunity for change (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. Between October 2017 and December 2018, there will be a major review of the design of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) conducted by the…
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Mā te mahi tahi, ka ora ai te taitamaiti (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. Working together to support māori student success. Ko te whāinga o tēnei pepa, he āwhina i ngā kura me ngā hapori Māori ki te mahi ngātahi,…
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Whānau, hapū, iwi, Māori communities and schools working together (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. Working together to support māori student success. The purpose of this paper is to help schools and Māori communities to work together, to build collaborative, culturally…
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Guidelines for negotiating a compensatory mechanism for reasonable endeavour (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper from the Canterbury Region. Recommendations: That a clear process in the form of guidelines be negotiated in the 2018 STCA round to ensure branches have a…
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Better leading for better learning: Report of the middle leadership taskforce. (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This report is the final in a series of reports and papers by PPTA’s Middle Leadership Taskforce. It summarises the issues for middle leadership, and…
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2016 NZPPTA Annual Report
2016-2017 Annual report and consolidated financial statements of the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association Te Wehengarua.
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Once more into the breach... PPTA industrial stragegy for 2018 - and beyond (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper investigates the economic, political and industrial environment for the 2018-2019 bargaining round, and outlines an industrial strategy, including a claims process, for that round.…
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Auckland Name Change (2018)
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Career Pathways - Subject Pedagogy Specialists (2018)
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